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This might take a while
9 years ago
It's been a several days since my last sketch and it looks like it will be a few more. Since that last sketch, I've been having trouble getting anything I was working on this weekend to turn out even partially resembling what I hoped it would. There's almost always a bit of a disappointment factor with any given piece but that factor has been on steroids lately and is easily ten times worse than it usually is. I've been getting this feeling early enough in the sketch stage that there's really nothing to scan and it prevents me from going any further.
Rather than fight that feeling, I've swtiched efforts into reorganizing my personal art file. It's been somewhat organized though I haven't kept up with placing the newer art into their proper folders once it has been uploaded for perhaps two years. While I have taken care of that in the past couple of days, I'm now into a heavy reorganizing of the regular folders. Just a bit ago, I finished getting the Heather and Placid First Date series of sketches into their proper order by partially renaming the files. This is only the first of such efforts, the biggest being the Dragon Lady folder and its numerous sketch "storylines" that I have to attempt to organize for the first time. While most of the folders have been a snap, it's all tough gong until I'm finished which will probably take days. Until then, I probably won't have anything new to show unless. in a highly unlikely event, I come across some hidden treasure that hasn't been uploaded before.
Rather than fight that feeling, I've swtiched efforts into reorganizing my personal art file. It's been somewhat organized though I haven't kept up with placing the newer art into their proper folders once it has been uploaded for perhaps two years. While I have taken care of that in the past couple of days, I'm now into a heavy reorganizing of the regular folders. Just a bit ago, I finished getting the Heather and Placid First Date series of sketches into their proper order by partially renaming the files. This is only the first of such efforts, the biggest being the Dragon Lady folder and its numerous sketch "storylines" that I have to attempt to organize for the first time. While most of the folders have been a snap, it's all tough gong until I'm finished which will probably take days. Until then, I probably won't have anything new to show unless. in a highly unlikely event, I come across some hidden treasure that hasn't been uploaded before.
By the way, do you still have any of the Serpent Sutra still in writing somewhere? I wanted to add the text to the file I had but couldn't find a document anywhere on my machine.
I have chat logs between us from late 2008 and very early 2009 (from Yahoo instant messenger), but nothing from the middle of the year when we would have been talking about it [given how you posted the first Serpent Sutra pic in July 2009]. I'm pretty sure I switched up the way I did IMing back then, so in the switch-over and the soon-to-occur PC change up I'd go through around then, I don't have any other logs between us.
But all the more likely is that we started talking through emails most of all, because I seem to recall that was the main mode of communication after a point. But, though my gmail seems to go back to 2007, there's not really anything of note in 2009, so it's possible I deleted everything for a time, since I seem to have everything from 2010 forward.
Anyway, did you check your old emails and chatlogs? If you ever kept that sort of thing, that is.
Oh, and I suppose it could have been a couple of FA notes where this was discussed, but I don't see anything in there either! O:
So, we might have to come up with a new list, trying to remember whatever we can from the first while also making up new ones.
Sorry to bother you with all of that. It just seemed like the thing to have with the images and I didn't do it at the time. I also thought there might be some additional ideas I hadn't illustrated as yet but I couldn't tell from what I copied so far. If you do come up with anything new and would care to send it my way, then please do so.
Thank you again.
And thank YOU again for asking and for wanting to do them back in the day. :D
good luck and thank you for taking time to do this:)
both:)
it's not easy going back to old creations and sorting them, remembering the sparks that caused them. Sometimes it leads to bursts of inspiration, other times to feeling overwhelmed, like you have so much you want to do. But either way, you're working to organize, improve, and grow, and that's a good thing.